Method to embed semicolon in a string

[mistahmikey]

I wish to create a command on the fly along the lines of:

variable string Command

Command:Set[execute <command1> ; <command2>]

relay all ${Command.Escape}

but I can find no way to embed the semicolon into Command. For example, if I do the following:

Command:Set[\;]

echo ${Command.Escape}

returns

echo: <text>

It appears there is no way to escape semicolon.

So is what I am trying to do even possible (i.e, relay 2 or more commands to be execute at once). If so, how do I arrange it syntactically?

Thanks

[Lax]

Use quotes. Quotes denote a string and removes the special behavior of various characters including comma, brackets, etc.

Command:Set[";"]

relay all "${Command.Escape}"

[mistahmikey]

For some reason, this does not work for me. So if I try the following:

variable string Command

Command:Set[";"]

echo ${Command.Escape}

I get:

Syntax: Echo <text>

When I try embedding a ; into a longer string, anything after the ; is ignored, i.e., it appears to be treating everything after the ; as a comment.

[Lax]

Because once again you need to quote to remove the behavior of the ;

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echo "${Command.Escape}"

[mistahmikey]

Yep, sorry about that - realized it and was going to delete the post. Thanks for your patience.

[mistahmikey]

Well, as it turns out, I still have an issue. I am unable to get two commands to execute using the execute command. So, for example

execute "echo one ; echo two"

only outputs "one".

Ultimately, what I want is to be able to execute multiple commands using relay, like:

relay all execute "echo one ; echo two"

Is there a way to do this?

[Lax]

The space after your semicolon is breaking the command parser.

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execute "echo one;echo two"

works fine

[mistahmikey]

Aha. Got it working now. Thanks very much.